ABOUT

Sheila makes work in a range of media - performance, installation, participatory event and moving image. She works both as a solo and collaborative artist, and originally trained in contemporary dance.

She is interested in the relationship between art and science with particular focus on care and hybridity, informed by her own mixed heritage (Indian/English). She is an artist who champions making work for the passer-by.

As a collaborative artist she is a long-standing Associate Artist of Blast Theory and has toured and performed nationally and internationally for them and many other companies (Duckie, Rajni Shah Theatre, Pacitti Company). She also teaches in Academic contexts and regularly mentors artists and students and gives public talks.

Sheila is an Associate Artist for Clod Ensemble's Performing Medicine Project, regularly working with medical students across London and is currently an Associate Research Fellow in the School of Arts at Birkbeck.

Artist Sue Palmer

Sheila regularly works with artist Sue Palmer - most notably as part of their current work Common Salt, developed over four years of research into the colonial and geographical history of England and India using nature as their guide. Sheila and Sue began collaborating on the idea for Common Salt in 2013, investigating a thread of connected narratives, originally inspired by the hedgerow, as part of Sheila’s two-year Rambles with Nature project.

Lighting Designer Marty Langthorne

Another regular collaborator is Lighting Designer Marty Langthorne who has worked with Sheila since 2004. He has created designs for shows at a range of venues, including the Southbank Centre, Sadlers Wells and Barbican Theatre as well as in multiple site specific and gallery contexts. With Sheila he has worked on Grafting & Budding, White Squall, Sugar Sugar White, Give Me Land Lots of Land, Nurse Knows Best, Covet Me Care For Me, Rat Rose Bird, Rambles with Nature and Sulphur.

Where often audiences expect to see the odd un-sanded edge or unpeeled label there are none, and the attention to detail is striking.